MVC reusable components vs MVVM reusable components

Question

I've been developing applications applications for quiet some time now, using MVC and MVVM architecture. After going deeper into those 2 architectures, i've found out that MVVM's components are more loosely coupled than those of MVC. But after doing some research, some say that MVC's components are also loosely coupled and reusable can someone clarify this issue ??

Answer 1

MVC is the older and base pattern. MVVM pattern is derived from the MVC pattern. Wikipedia says

"Largely based on the model–view–controller pattern (MVC), MVVM is targeted at UI development platforms which support event-driven programming, such as HTML5, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight and the ZK framework."

Both are providing loosely coupled and reusable layers.

Similar to MVVM, even in MVC pattern, we can use ViewModels: Please refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2010trainingcourse_aspnetmvc3fundamentals_topic7.aspx.

Thanks.